Re: [LegacyUG] Post Card Collection Dilema
I am one of those who does not agree with creating census events, so I would not use a postcard event. I believe that the event is related to the information you extract or deduce from the piece of evidence such as the census or postcard, making them sources. The most obvious would be the address, making it a residence event on the reasonable assumption that the recipient lived at the address at the time of the postmark on the card just as the date of a census is evidence of residence at that time. Other events would depend on the content of the postcard. You might have a line saying ' sorry to tell you that your aunt Edith passed away last Thursday' , making it evidence of a death event, 'we went to her funeral on Sunday', making it evidence of a burial event. It really depends on how much you can reliably extract from the information it contains. My point is that the postcard can be a source for many different events, just as a census would give information on residence , occupation , disabilities, family ages , relationships, etc. I don't see families living their lives according to events like receiving a postcard or filling in a census questionaire, people do not sit around saying , ' do you remember the night of the 1911 census ? , what fun we had answering those silly questions' Whereas , they might well say ' do you remember that old house Grandad had on Elm Street , when was that ?' So I see the census or a postcard as a master source. Because the master source name is freeform and Legacy does not use it for any form of control I try to categorise my sources in a way relevant to me and also make use of the alphameric sorting Legacy does. So I might have a source 'Census 1841 of England Wales - transcription by Ancestry' or 'Census 1851 of England Wales via Genes Reunited' so that in the master source list the sources appear in a logical order , all censuses together, all similar decades, all similar areas, etc. Remember this is quite distinct from the master source template used to create the source ( if you are using sourcewriter) where Legacy uses the categories you select to control the fields which appear. So you can create a master source list that appears in a manner relevant to you while still creating the templates in a way relevant to Legacy. In my scheme I would have a general category of 'Genealogical Research' which covered things like letters, emails, postcards, forums, conversations, etc. So my master source might be named 'Genealogical Research - Postcards from Mabel Jones' , and I would use detail sources to split those of different dates. But the templates could be 'Letters Personal correspondence' or 'Artifacts Privately held' , depending on which you felt was better suited. In the end it is very much a matter of personal choice but it does help to get different views on how you can organise your information. Rick Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] To Do List Images
All the media/picture galleries work in the same way , there is no specific Repository media. That applies to galleries for Individuals , Events , Sources , Repositories or Locations. When you attach media you can chose to have Legacy handle the file by adding it as a Picture. But there are restrictions , a 'Picture' can only be a graphic image file and even then , not a .gif and I think there restrictions on some forms of .tif images , and always a reccomendation that the file is not very large. The size matters because Legacy opens the file and reads it into temporary storage in order to create a thumbnail for the icon which it puts in the media frame. It does this dynamically each time you enter the media gallery and many large images create an enormous processing overhead. For other files , .txt , .doc , .pdf , .url , .mpg , .wav , .mp3 and any others you can think of, Legacy will not handle , but you can attach them as Sound , Video or Document files as Legacy simply passes the control to Windows and , in turn , Windows passes control to the default application which you have set for the particular file extension. The only real difference among Sound , Video and Document is that a different static icon is assigned to the media gallery frame , symbolising a microphone , film reel or document page but essentially Legacy doesn't care. Before , I think it was version 6 , there was no Document category and I used to attach PDF files as Sounds files, it still invoke Adobe Acrobat reader to display the file. You can also attach those large .bmp , .jpg , .tif , .gif files as a Document and have your default image display application display them rather than Legacy. With version 8 of Legacy there is now an option to add a website address which means I no longer have to create .url files in order to have web addresses in my media galleries. I make extensive use of the ToDo list system and the associated repositories to organise my research files as it allows me to keep all the files in a single folder but have them accessible from the individuals in my Legacy database in just a couple of clicks. It also works for general information files , like keeping a reference table of the dates on which a census was taken in different decades. Making use of ToDo list categories , such as Information , or creating your own such as Research notes allows you to Apply the Filter option and get appropriate lists of the items. I think it would be worth your while persevering with the ToDo list and repository use because it is very flexible giving you a lot of options for organising your external files while keeping track of them using Legacy. Rick Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Attaching a picture
Why not use the Media Gallery Clipboard ? That will copy the link for any file , picture or not , together with the Date , Caption and Notes. You can copy one or all the items from a gallery , or Copy Append , selecting items from different galleries. The paste function allows you to paste to Individual, Location , Source , Repository , in fact any Media Gallery. Right mouse click on the icon in the required gallery for the copy dropdown , select the copy option required , then go to the target gallery and right mouse click in a blank space and select the paste option. Rick Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Can you embed a Hyperlink into Legacy
Cliff, Yes you can. Create a bookmark and move/copy the resultant .url file into your desired folder where you can then add it as a file to your desired picture gallery. Rick Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] How do I add a photo to an existing Source Detail?
Lana, Although , as has been said, you will need to add the scanned obit. to each sourced event there is some help. There is a Picture Gallery clipboard. Having setup the first occurrence of the link to the scanned image file in the source detail picture gallery, make sure you have added any caption , date , description and fileid that you want , as these are copied to the clipboard together with the file link. Right click on the image thumbnail in the picture gallery frame and you will get a dropdown with options, one of which is Copy , select this. Now you can go to each of the other picture galleries for your source detail and Right click in the first blank frame. This time the dropdown will contain an option to Paste , which should also tell you how many items are on the Legacy clipboard to paste, when you select this you will have all the details copied to that picture gallery. You just need to repeat the Paste process for each of the other picture galleries for the other source details. The copied item remains on the clipboard until you overwrite it with another copy operation ( or exit Legacy). Rick Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] questionable family members
You could create a repository which you give a name relating to the line of research , like , Researching Smiths. The repository entry has a notes field to further explain your research and a Picture Gallery for linking any relevant files you have. Then if you start with the individual in your main tree to whom the unlinked individuals MAY BE connected you can create a ToDo item to follow up on that Smiths research, selecting the Researching Smiths repository as its repository. Copy the ToDo item to the clipboard and then paste it in the ToDo list of each individual connected with that research. Now in the future you will have the ToDo item for the individual in your main tree and can select the repository and using ShowList create a Search List of all individuals with ToDo item using that repository. Rick Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Source Pictures and Picture Gallery
Christine, It would be worth your while investigating the use of picture gallery clipboard. The picture gallery is really a link gallery , Legacy is just storing a link to the image file not the image itself. If you have taken the trouble to set up an image for a source citation , maybe added a description , date and notes , you don't want to keep repeating that same manual process. The picture gallery clipboard will help you. In your source citation picture gallery , right click on the icon you wish to copy and you get a dropdown list of options. Copy will copy that one item, Copy all will copy that entire picture gallery ( if you have multiple pictures ) , Copy Append is useful if you want to copy pictures from several different galleries. When you have finished the copy just go to the target gallery, for example the individual or a particular event picture gallery and then right click in a blank picture space. Once again you get the dropdown list but this time with a paste option , telling you how many images you have on the clipboard. When you paste the item or items , all the description, date and notes are added as well as the image (or rather the image link). It also applies to any files you have in the picture gallery, not just image files but also sound files text file, anthing you can put in the gallery in fact. Rick Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Where to enter history of the area?
This is relevant to your question on research notes placement also. There are a couple of places where you can link to external files from within Legacy. One is the picture galleries of which there are countless numbers, one for every individual, every event, every source and every location and probably more besides. For location notes you could use the gallery for the specific location, the gallery is not just for pictures but for any files, you simply add the link as a file and not a picture. If you find a website with local history you can capture the information on the page with the web browser option to save it as a web page archive format. Firefox for example can create MAFF type files with an image of the webpage as you saw it. These files can be simply added to the gallery and will use the Operating system default for invoking the filetype, so .pdf files may use Adobe Acrobat to display or you could store the url of the website as a bookmark and use that .url file in your gallery to go straight to the website with the information you wanted. Your default web browser would invoke any .url files. You could think about using the ToDo list function in Legacy for other research notes. The ToDo list is not just about items which you have to do but can just be information items. You can use existing categories or create your own , like Research Notes , and then use the filter option to display just those in that category. Each ToDo item has a source associated and any source you create will have a gallery to go with it which you can use for files containing research notes. Alternatively the Todo item will also allow you to create a repository. Repositories do not have to be real places, they can be imaginary or virtual places. You could create a ToDo item for Hometown Research and for that item a repository called Hometown Research. The repository would have a gallery associated with it where you could link your files regarding Hometown research. Alternatively it might be a John Smith research ToDo item and repository dealing with an individual. The other way to get to external files from within Legacy is via the URL addresses. You will find that repositories have a line for recording their homepage and you can make use of this. If you wish to invoke a file via a URL you enter file:///C:/Users/Marg/Legacy/Pictures/research.pdf for example. An advantage is that it can take as little as two clicks from an individual to get to the research notes, one on the ToDo icon and if the Research notes is the only ToDo and you have the Repository Tab as the one first shown you will see that the homepage can be clicked as the second click and you're there. Homepage addresses are also accessible from the individual's address icon ( the little house with a wireless handset ), which seemed incongruous for those living in the 18th century. I find that it can be useful if you have a saved copy of a Web version of your Legacy tree as you can invoke it from the individuals page using something like file:///C:/Users/Marg/Legacy/Web/Mytree/241.htm , the numeric being the appropriate RIN of the individual. So there are a number of ways of tying your Legacy database to external files and this might also apply to files created by more specialised research tools. Rick Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] FHL film numbers in sources
If you start with a space in front of the number it gets interpreted as character input rather than numeric and consequently the commas do not appear in the formatted citation. The space is also not noticable in the output. Rick Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] JPEG display
Yes , you can do what you are asking. When you attach the Jpeg to the source , add it as a file not a picture , that way it will be opened by your default Jpeg viewer and not Legacy. The downside will be that you will not get the preview, just a file icon and also those images will not be shown in Legacy reports. I tend to use the Legacy view for pictures which are photos of people and places rather than images of documents but you can mix the two with no problem. Rick Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Two sourcing questions
You could create an event/fact for those living in the now defunct streets and attach the source to that. Alternatively you could put a reference in the location notes to its picture gallery and link the file in there. I find that for items that may change I can create PDF files with images of the pertinent information from the website. I also find it useful create a URL shortcut file and include that in the location picture gallery, this gives me an internet link from my Legacy database to the website with interesting information on the location. Rick Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Picture Gallery
Margaret, There are many picture galleries in your Legacy database. Each individual has one, each event for each individual , each source for each event for each individual , as well as locations. I personally place images of birth certificates in the picture gallery for the source citation for the birth event of the individual. But if you wish to keep a copy of the birth certificate image in the individual picture gallery you can. If you have only one file in the picture gallery and you added it as a picture then Legacy will display the thumbnail on the individuals screen next to the name. To avoid that but still keep the file in the picture gallery , do as advised by Lavern , to remove the file. Then add the file back as a File , not as a Picture ( you will see there are also options for Sound and Video ). This way, even though the file is an image ( .jpg , .bmp or similar ) Legacy will not attempt to use its internal viewer to display the image. When you look at the individuals picture gallery you will see just a file icon not a thumbnail of the image but if you select that item and press play, or alternatively double click on that item , Legacy passes the task of displaying the file to Windows which will use your default image viewer to display the birth certificate image. Rick Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7.0 Any master note area that applys to whole database file
I certainly started in much the way Bruce describes. I had a number of short pieces of information which were general in nature. I created a ToDo item for each and made the Category , Information. I then had a filter option to show just the Information category items so that clicking on Apply Filter showed me that list. What I found though was that eventually I was collecting pieces of information that required files external to Legacy and this was when I started to build dummy repositories which were really just there to contain the URL pointer to the file, in their Homepage setting , hence giving me a way of referencing the file from within Legacy. So my use of Tiddlywiki is just a development of that process. The main aim is to keep Legacy as the control as it has the database of Individuals and Locations which I am researching so provides the ideal index to these research files. I did find that any research information I had on Locations could not be dealt with in the same way as the Master Location list does not contain anywhere like a Homepage to place the URL pointer. So the alternative I used was to create a URL file from a Bookmark , which can be edited with Notepad to change the URL as appropriate and the file renamed accordingly , remembering to keep the extension as .url. Then that file can be added to the Picture Gallery of a Master Location , entitled Research notes, and when double clicked or invoked with Play will call up the file with the appropriate research notes. Rick Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7.0 Any master note area that applys to whole database file
I picked up on a comment by JLB in a posting earlier this year. He was suggesting a way of presenting your Family History in a less formal way than Legacy reports. If you Google Jliki you will find his tutorial on the subject. The tool he uses is Tiddlywiki , a free open source function which uses any web browser and can be contained on a flash drive. I found that its main purpose is for keeping research notes and personal information together in one place. So that's one way in which I use it. In it's basic form there is not a lot to learn. You end up with a personal website which does not require internet connection , where all your notes are searchable and can be linked via hypertext links. If you create a ToDo list item in Legacy and start the name with a zero , the Alphameric list keeps it at the top. If you then create a dummy repository for the ToDo item , give it a homepage URL of the Tiddlywiki html file , for example ( file:///c:/Users/Fred/Tiddlywiki/Research.htm ). Then you are only 2 clicks away from your main Legacy page to your notes. In fact with Firefox as your browser you can even reference a collection of notes for each individual in your database and access them from that individual's ToDo list. The link will not work , of course, if you are running from a flash drive on another computer , but you can still invoke the Tiddlywiki html file directly and have your notes available. Rick Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Photos added to source detail
Jennifer, You need the Picture Gallery Clipboard. It doesn't work from the Picture Centre but is fine from any Picture Gallery. Just right click on the thumbnail in your source gallery and you get a dropdown with options to Copy , for just the selected item or Copy All for all of the items in the gallery. Once selected go to the target gallery and right click in a blank frame to get another option dropdown with a Paste option , which also tells you how many items are on the clipboard. All your Subject , date and description data is included with the image. Rick Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Photos added to source detail
Jenny, I don't think so. I think it is intended for use where you want to add pictures from more than one source gallery or if you are selecting more than one, but no all from a single gallery. You would use Copy/Append to indicate that you were just adding to the pictures already loaded onto the clipboard. Rick Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Introduction and a Picture/Source Question
Lana Make sure you use Picture centre to attach your photos , with what you intend it will save you work. Once you have indentified the photo to Legacy through the browse function you can add the fields such as title , date , description and fileid as suits you. Then when you locate the individual to whom the photo should be attached you will see that ---Individual is the first entry under Attached Pictures: click on that and click on Attach. You can also attach the photo to the various events such as birth christening death and burial and any custom events which you have added. There is no function to attach the photo directly to the source picture gallery for an event. However , when you come out of Picture centre , go to the individuals picture gallery and right mouse click on the thumbnail of the photo. This will give you the options from the Picture Gallery Clipboard. The dropdown will allow you to copy a single picture or copy all will copy all the pictures in the gallery. Then go to the source picture gallery and right mouse click on an empty box which gives you a dropdown to paste the picture(s) into the gallery. The advantage is that all the title , date , description and fileid details get copied along with the photo. Rick Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Citing city directories
Scott, To create a copy of a Master Source you must create at least one detail citation using it. Once you have done that you can simply go to the Master Source list and edit that Master Source and make the changes which you require. When you save the Master Source you are given two options , 1 to apply the changes to all references of this Master Source and 2 to apply the changes to a New Copy of this Master Source. It's always a good move to create at least one detail citation as soon as possible after creating a Master Source as it is very easy to forget that the Master is unused. If you then make changes to it thinking that you are going to create a copy , Legacy will simply assume that you are putting the finishing touches to your Master and will save the changes without the New Copy option. Rick Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Church/building histories
Sheri, I do as you do and create Events for individuals with photos and files attached to either the event or source citation. But I use Location rather than Event Address for any more general information. The advantage of Location over Event Address is that Location allows you to use the Mapping facility. For example I may have just general references to individuals in a city such as Norwich , for which I would have a location Norwich , Norfolk. But if I had an address specific reference such as a marriage at a church in the city I might enter the place information as Norwich [ St. Clement ] , Norfolk. This would give me two locations in the Master Location list. Norwich , Norfolk and Norwich [ St. Clement ] , Norfolk. Using the single square bracket places the inferior location after the superior location in the sort order of the Location list. I can use the Legacy Picture Gallery clipboard to copy any file references from the Event Picture Gallery to the Location Picture Gallery and thereby have a consolidation of information related to that location. In addition I can use Mapping from the individual to go to a specific address within a city or area. Legacy acknowledges that it is not a multimedia manipulation tool which is why there are add-ons such as Passage Express and Heritage Collector and your photos are not part of the Legacy database but Legacy simply maintains pointers to the file paths , so I don't worry about using external applications to manage those files as long as Legacy can find them and invoke them for me. I use Internet Explorer as my browser and if I find a village or town which has a website that offers a potted history of that location or a building such as a church I save the webpage as a single file and then attach that to the Location picture gallery , then I can just double click on the file icon , or click Play , and my web browser takes me to the website by invoking the .mht file. So there are ways of keeping your information together using just the Legacy database features if you are not looking to create your own website or publish the information in book or report form. Rick Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] SourceWriter Evidence Explained
I purchased a copy of a document which was a statement sworn under oath by my 2G Grandfather in 1842. It was basically his evidence before two justices of the peace in a settlement examination and comprised of a statement of his working life ; who he worked for , where and when and how much he was paid as an agricultural labourer. I used the template Court records loose papers microfilm/fiche The original and microfilm from which my photocopy was taken is held by the Devon record office who had listed it in their holdings with a reference number in the catalogue they publish on the National Archives website. So I was able to use that reference as the file no. in the detail. In the Master Source I used the parish name as the Jurisdiction State and Devon as the county as this was how the Devon record office had listed it in the catalogue. The series was also taken from the catalogue listing Overseers of the poor - settlement and poor relief - notices of removal In the Master source I just made the Film ID Photocopy of original. Rick Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Questionable children
Sally, If you want a visual cue in your database in the form of colour you might consider using the uncertain gender option. In the Individual information window , next to the Title suffix box there are three radio buttons , M , F and ?. Even if you know the gender of the individual you could set the ? button to express uncertainty. The colours are controlled from the Cutomise option Colours tab. I tend to use the default blue for Male , red for Female and I set the ? Unknown to yellow which stands out well. It is not quite what it was intended for , but if Geoff can track the pedigree of his pet dog with Legacy I am sure you could allow yorself some latitude in interpretation. Rick Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] Some help from across the pond
Jim, The information you had was correct. Southampton was the county name. Hampshire is an abbreviation for Southamptonshire , it's such a mouthful to say , unlike Northamptonshire which is much easier. On BMD certificates it would be written as the county of Southampton. Ron's county of Lancashire is written as the county of Lancaster and many shire counties take their names from the county town or seat of administration. The problem with many modern publications is that they show the situation as it is today. I think it was about 1961 that Southampton became a unitary authority and thus was removed from the county structure and now the county seat for Hampshire is Winchester , the old capital of England. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
